Maximus - FIRMWARE TOOLBOX V4.8

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Last minute change, thanks to DeViLs360 for pointing possible issue
with spoofing drives to liteon

WHATS NEW ON V4.8:

- ADDED: Custom Spoofing Option on "Tools->Spoof Firmware" option
(it asks for your 96 bytes inquiry.bin), this could be
safer for spoofing drives to Liteon because appears
Liteon drives have per-drive specific inquiry response.

If you lost you inquiry.bin file and cannot redump it, then
go ahead with listed Liteon spoofing option (it will work
but you will not have the factory value).

- ADDED: You can now open key.bin file from main window instead of
manually type the key (will ask for a 16 bytes file).

- FIXED: Clicking on firmware file didnt open properly on toolbox.

WHATS WAS NEW ON YESTERDAY V4.7:

- ADDED: Spoofing drives to Liteon DG model
- ADDED: Detect/Remove Hardware (DVD-ROM) (on File Menu)
- ADDED: Ixtreme 1.4 No-Check Bit firmware for 79 Drives
- FIXED: Several bugs.

Note: The No-check bit option for 79 drives is not set as default firmware
on Smart hack patcher option, you need to choose it from the list on the
Special Firmwares section, the reason is it could be unsafe and lead to M$
detection.

Congrats to geremia, c4e and all others for the latest Liteon releases


WHAT IS IT ?
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A graphical tool to handle several common dvd-drive firmware
tasks. This is the better tool you will find.

You can copy-paste the keys from one firmware to another not
matter if they are different vendor (samsung / hitachi / BENQ)
and not matter the version of the FW

Allows SMART PATCH for rolling code firmwares (Hitachi 0078/0079) and
also Direct Flash on all drives, even the nasty 78/79 drives.

RAWDUMP does not work fine with SIL chipsets yet, be aware of use
the validate checksum feature to avoid bad dumps and bricks. We
will be working on SIL chipsets later.

The flasher/restore appears to be rock solid now, also very easy
to understand, so this could be the base to flash future firmware
releases, even on the 78


FEATURES:
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- Direct Dump and Direct Flash over all versions of GDR3120L drives
even the 0078 FK drives. For 79 FK you will need aditional device
attached to the drive.
- Allow copy-paste of the keys between firmare not matter if
they are crypted or not or if they are different vendor or
even better, not matter which version of Fw (46,47,59,78 etc)
- Do common firmware tasks with a mouse click
- Supports Samsung and Hitachi firmwares All Versions
- Shows Vendor, ROM version and also if its CRYPTED or NOT
- Allow crypt or decrypt the files
- Shows the 16 byte Keys not matter if the file is Crypted
- Allows adding of TAGS to a KEY like Owner, Serial No, Date.
(Dont worry, the tags are not saved onto firmware file)
- Fully Integrated with Windows Context Menu (like winrar)
- Fully Supports 512 KB firmwares (2 banks)


SPONSORSHIP DONATION:
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N/A, if you like to support our research go to

http://www.maximusgames.net/79passkeyinfo.php

and purchase our hardware



INSTALLATION:
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- Unzip contents on the folder you like
- Open application and go to Options->Enable Windows Context Menu
- Close application



HOW TO USE:
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- READ THE ATTACHED FILE LABELED TUTORIALS.TXT

- To open a file you can just on Windows Explorer do Right Click and
choose "Open with Firmware Toolbox", or you can first launch the
application and do File-Open menu or simply drag a file from your
browser to the application.

- To encrypt or decrypt a file just open it as above and click the
button encrypt or decrypt.

- To replace a key just type it or copy-paste it into the key
textbox and click on "Replace Key"

- To set or replace Tag Data just type it into the Tag Data Section
"Save Tag Data". This Tag Data will be show every time you open
a file that have the same key. Useful to identify an Owner's Key



CHANGE LOG
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WHATS NEW ON V4.70:

- ADDED: i-xtreme 1.4 multispeed for all Hitachi Versions (Credit is to C4E)
- FIXED: Properly Display BENQ VAD6038 Hacker String located at 5FE0
- FIXED: Several bugs.

WHATS NEW ON V4.50:

- FIXED: Properly support Handling of VAD6038 Firmwares (see notes).
- FIXED: Previously Hitachi spoofed drives were not visible on toolbox anymore
now you can see it and unspoof it or re-spoof them
- FIXED: Several other bugs
 
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